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This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field. "The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."--(starred) Booklist.
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"The story is inspiring, and Stanley has recorded the details with passion and dignity. An excellent curriculum item."
— (starred) Booklist.
Awards
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Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992
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Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992
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Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992
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Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992
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Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992
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Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992
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Winner of Booklist Books for Youth Editors' Choice, 1992
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Winner of Virginia Library Association Jefferson Cup Book Award, 1992
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About Jerry Stanley
Jerry Stanley is the author of several highly praised books for young readers, including Children of the Dust Bowl, winner of the Orbis Pictus Award; I Am an American, an ALA Notable Book; and Hurry Freedom, a National Book Award nominee and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. He is a former professor of history at California State University–Bakersfield.
About Fred Sullivan
Fred Sullivan is an actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has played over one hundred roles as an award-winning resident actor at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He is resident director at Gamm Theatre and teaches acting at the Rhode Island School of Design.